{"id":498,"date":"2005-10-11T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=498"},"modified":"2005-10-11T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T23:17:00","slug":"the-race-is-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"The Race Is On &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/\">Daveberta <\/a>has found the <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/placing-odds-on-next-king-of-alberta.html\">odds for the PC leadership race <\/a>in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertaventure.com\/abventure_4261.html\">Alberta Venture Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdinning.ca\/\">Jim Dinning<\/a> (former MLA Calgary-Lougheed): 2-1<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.ab.ca\/net\/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&#038;rnumber=55\">Ed Stelmach<\/a> (MLA Ft. Saskatchewan-Vegreville): 4-1<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.ab.ca\/net\/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&amp;rnumber=42\">Dave Hancock<\/a> (MLA Edmonton-Whitemud): 5-1<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedmorton.ca\/\">Ted Morton<\/a> (MLA Foothills-Rockyview): 8-1<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyleoberg.com\/\">Lyle Oberg<\/a> (MLA Strathmore-Brooks): 8-1<br \/>Mark Norris (defeated MLA Edmonton-McClung): 9-1<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.ab.ca\/net\/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&amp;rnumber=74\">Iris Evans<\/a> (MLA Sherwood Park): 16-1<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Dinning is the frontrunner, but it&#8217;s very interesting to see the Alberta Venture panel brush aside Ted Morton as nothing more than a fringe candidate. At 8-1, I&#8217;d be tempted to wager a bit of my rebate cash on Dr. Morton. I expect the Morton crew to be signing up the far right special interest groups en masse which could be huge in a one member, one vote format (assuming that&#8217;s the route they go).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll also be interesting to watch Oberg and Stelmach jockey for the rural vote that will be needed to take on Dinning&#8217;s Calgary support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daveberta has found the odds for the PC leadership race in Alberta Venture Magazine: Jim Dinning (former MLA Calgary-Lougheed): 2-1Ed Stelmach (MLA Ft. Saskatchewan-Vegreville): 4-1Dave Hancock (MLA Edmonton-Whitemud): 5-1Ted Morton (MLA Foothills-Rockyview): 8-1Lyle Oberg (MLA Strathmore-Brooks): 8-1Mark Norris (defeated MLA Edmonton-McClung): 9-1Iris Evans (MLA Sherwood Park): 16-1 It&#8217;s no secret that Dinning is the frontrunner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}